The Constitution of England: Or, An Account of the English Government: in which it is Compared Both with the Republican Form of Government and the Other Monarchies in Europe

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Сторінка viii The Boundaries which the Constitution has set to the Royal Prerogative . VII . The
same Subject continued . . . . . . . . . . . VIII . New Restrictions . . . . . IX . Of Private
Liberty , or the Liberty of Individuals X . On the Law that is observed in England in
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Сторінка xviii The unbounded freedom of the debates in the legislature . IV . The power to bear
the constant union of all orders of subjects against its prerogatives . V . The
freedom allowed to all individuals to take an active part in government concerns .
VI .

Сторінка 28 ... by securing the property of individuals . To this end he made jurisprudence the
principal object of his attention ; and so much did it improve under his care , that
the mode of process became fixed and settled ; Judge Hale going even so far as
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Сторінка 31 ... from the former they are to date the establishment of it : and as the Great
Charter was the bulwark that protected the freedom of individuals , so was the
statute in question the engine which protected the charter itself , and by the help
of which ...

Сторінка 45 The contending fanaticism of persecuting sects joined in the conflict between
regal haughtiness and the ambition of individuals ; the tempest blew from every
point of the compass ; the constitution was rent asunder ; and Charles exhibited
in ...

Сторінка 343 - The liberty of the press is indeed essential to the nature of a free state ; but this consists in laying no previous restraints upon publications, and not in freedom from censure for criminal matter when published.

Сторінка 189 - Sense taken for a malicious Defamation, expressed either in Printing or Writing, and tending either to blacken the Memory of one who is dead, or the Reputation of one who is alive, and to expose him to public Hatred, Contempt or Ridicule.

Сторінка 338 - It hath sovereign and uncontrollable authority in the making, confirming, enlarging, restraining, abrogating, repealing, reviving, and expounding of laws, concerning matters of all possible denominations, ecclesiastical, or temporal, civil, military, maritime, or criminal ; this being the place where that absolute despotic power, which must in all governments reside somewhere, is intrusted by the constitution of these kingdoms.

Сторінка 77 - Will you to the utmost of your " power maintain the laws of God, the true profession of the " gospel, and the protestant reformed religion established " by the law ? And will you preserve unto the bishops and " clergy of this realm, and to the churches committed to " their charge, all such rights and privileges as by law do " or shall appertain unto them, or any of them ? — King " or queen. All this I promise to do.

Сторінка 76 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.

Сторінка 344 - ... will entirely lose its force when it is shown by a reasonable exertion of the laws that the press cannot be abused to any bad purpose without incurring a suitable punishment, whereas it never can be used to any good one when under the control of an Inspector. So true will it be found that to censure the licentiousness is to maintain the liberty of the press."—Blackstone, B.

Сторінка 369 - DRESS AND HABITS OF THE PEOPLE OF ENGLAND, from the Establishment of the Saxons in Britain to the Present Time. With an Historical Inquiry into every branch of Costume, Ancient and Modern.

Сторінка 2 - HEEREN'S MANUAL OF THE HISTORY OF THE POLITICAL SYSTEM OF EUROPE AND ITS COLONIES, from its formation at the close of the Fifteenth Century, to its re-establishment upon the Fall of Napoleon, translated from the Fifth German Edition. New Edition, complete in 1 vol. Svo, cloth, 14*. 1846 "The best History of Modern Europe that has yet appeared, and it la likely long to remain without a rival."— X(A«iceum.